I’m so intrigued by how often people complain about foss and Linux on lemmy. Everything about Lemmy appeals to people who are really into both and as someone else pointed out those leanings and the other main complaint, leftist politics, are all insanely tied together and all should be very much expected on Lemmy.

It sounds like the real complaint is that it’s different.

Because yeah it’s certainly not more toxic. That’s laughable. My interactions here have been overwhelmingly better than on reddit.

And the other complaints boil down to “it’s small and new, yuck”… Yeah that’s a good thing usually. There have been terrible attacks with CSAM but people are handling it and luckily I’ve never seen a single image like that. On reddit it was not uncommon to see mutilated humans without wanting to even though there was far more time and resources available to prevent that

Boring

Man you get it. We’d have a great conversation if we met, I can tell. Thank you for this response. I agree with every word of it!

The only person here demonstrating learning disabilities is you.

Except I have taken many steps to make my device more private such as using the DDG tracker blocker, using Firefox, ad blocking extensions, disabling Google apps where possible, and more.

Not to mention I’m not such a cheap bastard I won’t pay $3.50 for something I’ll likely use for years.

You need to smoke some weed or something, you’re really riled up about something you don’t understand and you seem to hate anyone contradicting your factually wrong statements about it

You are all over this thread completely missing what people continually explain to you: THIS IS GOOGLE. If there is a law broken, Google would be liable. At no point did Ruben have a choice if he ever wanted to have an ad supported version in the Play store.

Yes you’re right about the past. However also, the past 30 years have established that people like “free” and so offering an ad supported option reduces the high probability that the app will fail. Most people obviously are okay with ads, otherwise Google (among many others) would be an entirely different company today, if it still existed at all.

If Boost was only available as a paid app, it likely would need to cost more, also less people would use the app and quite possibly it would be a failure. I support his decision as much as I hate ads. $3.50 is a steal so I paid it immediately

Lol to each their own. Us “morons” like a better UI

I’m going to edit my comment. It wasn’t fair or good to snipe at Jerboa

I might be wrong now but it was not in a great state a few weeks ago when I tried it. I’m glad it exists.

Tried it. Jank abounded.

Do you ever step off the ivory towers of idealism to the earth where capitalism controls everything?

You want software engineers to suddenly spontaneously create a socialist society so they don’t need to be paid to survive?

If not then maybe try understanding the basic premise that either you can pay $3.50, tolerate ads/tracking, or use Jerboa which btw is getting what you pay for. Shit is janky af

Edit: Jerboa may be fine now. I retract my statement about it because a) it was brand new when I tried it and b) software doesn’t need to be perfect today, when it can be improved and also represents a future I hope we eventually reach

That’s definitely true. I wonder if anyone throwing a tantrum here would ever care to learn how to do that.

Yes. It was meant to be paid for unless ads are okay with you. He does this for a living.

That’s a great point and I may do that! So far the app works wonderfully so it’s probably deserved.

How is it so hard for you to understand that Google does shit that everyone else has no choice about?

And unless you: have access to the source code, are fluent in the programming languages used to build it, AND have time to review it all, you’ll never know if an app does that.

Conforming to the Play store does not make the dev shady imo. If that’s your stance you probably should stick mainly to F-Droid apps.

It’s Google’s verbiage

I’m kind of confused how this is so controversial or unexpected. You’re using commercial software for free, ad support should be expected. It definitely sounded like and was confirmed to be out of the dev’s hands, it’s Google’s ad platform. If you can spend $3.50 USD to remove ads it’s not a concern.

I love free software but people also need to feed their families. This guy chose software as a way to do that. Being opposed to ads is great but either cough up the 3.50 for an app you’ll likely use thousands of hours or don’t. Don’t shame the guy for allowing it to also be used “free” with ads.